Steve Bruce and his Aston Villa players trundled off the Griffin Park turf to huge jeers from their own supporters for the second successive season.

Villans thought they'd seen the last of abysmal days on the road, but the claret and blues once again folded away from home to end Christmas on a sour note.

The manager was furious during his post-match press conference having watched his team extend their winless streak to five matches and slip out of the play-off places.

Here is every word he said:

Thoughts on that?

Not a lot if I’m being brutally honest, not a lot.

Adomah’s injury

It’s a dead leg, hip injury. We won’t know how long until we get him assessed tomorrow.

I don’t want to use that as an excuse. There is still 11 out there who have got to be producing better than that. We certainly weren’t good enough with or without the ball.

I thought performances like that had left us but unfortunately it has returned. The mistakes we’ve been making - from experienced players - has been bordering on ridiculous. We simply weren’t good enough.

Why is this happening?

The one thing you have to do is do the basics right. Unfortunately, we’re not doing the basics right or well enough. We’re not playing well enough either.

With the ball especially, we gave it away numerous times. We resorted to just hit and hope which is certainly not something we haven’t seen. But I thought we’d seen the last of performances like that. We need to be better than that.

We rallied and scored a good goal but we put ourselves right on the back foot in the second half and gave them the ball back. A club like ours, with the expectation it’s got, we come to Brentford and we’re expected to romp away with it.

They’re a good side. You can have a look at the run or whatever you want, we’ve lost twice in eight games but we haven’t won in five. I’m aware of it. We have to go again, simple as that.

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Message to the fans

I’ve said it many, many times about them. That’s why we’re a big club with a big history and a big tradition. We’ve got a loyal support and they rightly vented their frustrations and feelings tonight.

If I’d made the journey down here tonight on a horrible night I think I’d have done the same - well, I have done the same. That’s why we are the club we are. When they see performances like that, they hoped it had gone away. That’s what I inherited a year ago and unfortunately it’s crept back in tonight.

We’re only a week away from a crisis at Aston Villa. Everything is a crisis if we don’t win. It was only two or three weeks ago that we were in the thick of it. We’re having our blip. Cardiff have had it, Sheffield (United) have had it, Derby had theirs at the start. It’s all to play for. We’ll be better on Saturday because I don’t think we could be any worse.